No Child Left Behind

For 10 months, Tribune reporter Stephanie Banchero and photographer Heather Stone documented the challenges facing a 9-year-old girl as she transferred from a failing school to a passing school under the No Child Left Behind Act.

Rayola Victoria Carwell is eager to answer a question in the 3rd-grade class of Barbara Hodo (rear) at Attucks Elementary School on the South Side. Rayola's mother took her and her siblings out of Stockton Elementary in Uptown because, she says, the commute was too difficult.